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Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France in 1882. From an early age, he attended evening classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Le Havre, where he met Othon Friez and Raoul Dufy. In 1904 he set up his studio in Paris and three years later showed three paintings at le Salon des Indépendants. In 1907 he first saw the work of Cézanne and in the same year met Picasso who had just completed 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' (1907). Although not immediately impressed, Braque began experimenting with a fragmented style, eventually completing 'Nude' (1907-1908) which can be seen as one of the earliest works in Cubism. Returning to the Mediterranean, and to painting landscapes, Braque was rapidly developing his own distinctive vision, imposing his own take on the landscape rather than replicating exactly what he saw. For the next few years Braque worked closely with Picasso particularly between 1910 and 1912, experimenting with Cubism and this new technique in which to represent form and space. Braque and Picasso 's friendship was strengthened, and until 1914 both artists worked in close collaboration, mutually influencing each other, and introducing into their pictures stenciled letters and numbers, imitations of wood and marble, sand and other substances, collages. Framed 18 X28 inches. 11/40